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Old 05-14-2016, 04:01 PM
 
Location: Pacific NW
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Why does everyone want to come here vs Portland or anywhere else? I guess what is so special about here?
High paying tech jobs, that's about it.
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Old 05-14-2016, 04:12 PM
 
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I love the beauty and the weather and the liberal nerdy mentality of the Pacific Northwest and I love big cities so Seattle is the best. I love good theater and all the museums and festivals here. I wouldn't mind Portland either. Vancouver would be fine but seems really expensive and I don't want to fill out extra paperwork to work/ live in Camada as an American citizen.
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Old 05-14-2016, 04:57 PM
 
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I love the beauty and the weather and the liberal nerdy mentality of the Pacific Northwest and I love big cities so Seattle is the best. I love good theater and all the museums and festivals here. I wouldn't mind Portland either. Vancouver would be fine but seems really expensive and I don't want to fill out extra paperwork to work/ live in Camada as an American citizen.
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Old 05-14-2016, 06:44 PM
 
Location: Independent Republic of Ballard
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Part of it is that we've got ten times the tourists here than we used to have, say, 25 years ago. The Seahawks have raised out national profile. The Boy's In The Boat was #1 on the NYT Bestseller List. The Internet makes it easy to vicariously visit and dream that you are here.
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Old 05-14-2016, 07:28 PM
 
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High paying tech jobs, that's about it.
Just that? Huh.
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Old 05-14-2016, 07:38 PM
 
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Well, at least double. But it's a big increase. For example, a Seattle Weekly (they covered this stuff better then) news article in 1982 said Downtown had about 2,000-2,500 rooms, and a hotel boom was doubling that with a net increase of 2,200 roughly overnight. That probably didn't count motels on the fringes, so I'll guess 5,500. We had a glut that lasted several years and contributed to the convention center getting built in the late 80s. I believe the count was around 6,500 in 1995 or so. Then for 15 years we had continuous hotel construction that got GDT to 12,000. That lasted for a few years until the current boom started completing new rooms, with 2,700 underway or completed. Of course occupancy rates are high these days at well over 80%, which I'd guess is significantly higher than before 1982.

That's not the whole story of course. It doesn't differentiate between business travelers, pass-throughs, and pleasure tourists. It omits visitors that stay with friends or family. Some hotel guests are actually residents, whether they've taken local jobs and are doing the hotel for a few months at first, or they're poor and living in cheap motels. Ok the latter is mostly not the case in our expensive market.

Agreed that Seattle is mentioned more in popular culture these days. A recent top romcom in China was basically Sleepless all over again. Fifty Shades was another. Coffee shops named "Seattle __" seem to be everywhere.
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Old 05-14-2016, 07:40 PM
 
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Seattle, Seattle, Seattle. Everyone is moving here. Even of they work outside the city, they want to live in the city and commute outwards (what I call a "reverse commute"). There is no sign of this trend slowing down. Seattle is the ultimate urban playground for 20- and 30-somethings. But there is such a limited amount of habitable space, parks and so forth. The playground is getting crowded.
I wouldn't live in Seattle if I got paid to do so. Too wet, too crowded, too fish smelling but a lovely place to visit for a few days.
So not *everyone* is moving to Seattle.
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Old 05-14-2016, 07:57 PM
 
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It is pretty wet and getting crowded. It is not fishy smelling.
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Old 05-14-2016, 11:00 PM
 
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Crowded is another way of saying vibrant.
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Old 05-15-2016, 01:29 AM
 
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I agree with op. Seems like the entire world is migrating into Seattle. Rents and real estate are becoming outrageous. 250k will buy u a 1932 built 1000 sq ft. shack in Everett with no yard. The food stinks. People are polite, but too reserved and impossible to befriend. The traffic is mind numbing, all the slender women are spoken for, but despite all that, the PNW and Seattle sure gets in ur soul. And the beauty of WA state is heavenly. And I love the rain.
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